Before you start

Hello,

Hey all,

My current website is located at http://www.edinw.com

What it currently has:
-A list of dealers & employees that are allowed to access the members page which contains 3 seperate download pages (reg price lists, specials, close outs)
-A front page with the latest news
-A section that contains public downloads in 4 sections (delivery schedule, policies, etc.)

Now here is what I mean: I need a site that is really two sites. One that would be invisible to the public were an admin could doctor with everything and writers could submit content (this I know that Drupal can do, and well), BUT then a second "site" or section that would be for the reading public which just presented the content and not option to submit content and no user login or anything like that.

I guess basically I would just need a way for Drupal to remove a few blocks from the left bar. But how?

So is Drupal the choice or is there another option?

Hello,

I'm using XAMPP's PHP/Apache/MySQL bundle. I went through the Drupal pre-installation instructions outlined in the INSTALL.txt file. My site seemed to work prior to until I set the session.save_handler value to "user" as requested in the instructions. Now my pages run into the following error:

Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module: user (path: .;c:\apachefriends\xampp\tmp)

How do i fix this?

RS

I don't need a CMS to render or serve a web site. What I need is a good CMS to manage the content-creation side of an existing site. That means either (a) working with an existing non-Drupal schema, or (b) in the worst case converting all the content to a Drupal schema. In the latter case, however, I still need to extend the schema substantially, both by adding columns to tables and even adding new tables. Yes, I need page rendering, but only for author/admin preview. I'll continue to render the web site statically and dynamically from the database using the existing code.

I am looking for a CMS that can be used as an exercise and workout logging and tracking system where users can log in and create a workout with specific exercises and track their progress via weight, height, measurement entries. I've been looking for something that can begin to give me close to what I want without having to code a site from scratch. So far I have not had any luck, but maybe someone has had some experience doing this or know of some module that would fit my needs.